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 The included helper program "ninjahelper" will walk you through creating
 an rdiff-backup configuration, and will set up the ssh keys for you.
 
+
+Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
+==================================
+
+Duplicity can store backups on Amazon S3 buckets, taking care of encryption.
+Since it performs incremental backups it minimizes the number of request per
+operation therefore reducing the costs. The boto Python interface to Amazon
+Web Services is needed to use duplicity with S3 (Debian package: python-boto).
+
+
 INSTALLATION
 ============
    
@@ -218,13 +228,15 @@ VSERVERS
 ========
 
 If you are using Linux-Vservers (http://linux-vserver.org/) there are some
-special capabilities that different handlers have to make vserver backups easier.
+special capabilities that different handlers have to make vserver 
+backups easier.
+
 Set the variable "vservers" to be "yes" in /etc/backupninja.conf and see the
 example configuration files for each handler to configure the vserver specific
 variables.
 
-Additional vserver variables that can be configured in /etc/backupninja.conf. but
-probably don't need to be changed:
+Additional vserver variables that can be configured in /etc/backupninja.conf, 
+but they probably don't need to be changed:
 
 VSERVERINFO (default: /usr/sbin/vserver-info)
 VSERVER (default: /usr/sbin/vserver)
@@ -251,6 +263,11 @@ To add an additional 'wizard' to ninjahelper, follow these steps:
          ... do work here ...
        }
 
-(3) check the examples of the included helpers to see how they are
-    written. The dialog functions are defined in easydialog.sh.
+(3) look at the existing helpers to see how they are written. Try to re-use
+    functions, such as the dialog functions that are defined in easydialog.sh,
+    or the vserver functions defined in lib/vserver.
 
+(4) test, re-test, and test again. Try to break the helper by going backwards,
+    try to think like someone who has no idea how to configure your handler
+    would think, try to make your helper as simple as possible. Walk like a cat,
+    become your shadow, don't let your senses betray you.